Good. I'm sick of trolls who hide behind fictitious personalities and spew garbage. I can say this, since I am the head of a multi-billion dollar corporation and you are all poor and smelly liberals. Lol. Get stenched, nerds.

Mike_LowELL:Good. I'm sick of trolls who hide behind fictitious personalities and spew garbage. I can say this, since I am the head of a multi-billion dollar corporation and you are all poor and smelly liberals. Lol. Get stenched, nerds.

You're probably trolling, but you do realize that this is being done so that it'll be easier for corrupt government officials to retaliate against people who expose their crimes don't you?

The measure would require service providers to ask users to provide their real names and other identifying information if they want to post information publicly or sign up for access to the internet and telephone services, Xinhua said.

Isn't that basically how it works in America? You try signing up for an ISP or phone company without providing your name and billing address.

serial_crusher:The measure would require service providers to ask users to provide their real names and other identifying information if they want to post information publicly or sign up for access to the internet and telephone services, Xinhua said.

Isn't that basically how it works in America? You try signing up for an ISP or phone company without providing your name and billing address.

What is it about Communist (at least in name) governments that they're so farking insecure about keeping their people in line? The simplification of their language by editing the characters down was like "newspeak" in 1984.

MadSkillz: Paris1127: A few million people on Weibo and Baidu will probably register as Jia Jun Peng (贾君鹏), who has a mother that wants them to come home for dinner.

/obscure Chinese internet meme//the River Crabs won't get the joke

I had to look that up. I thought "River Crab" might have been funny slang for something, but it's sad slang for the fact that the word for censorship is censored.

The censorship is pervasive, but Chinese internet users are some of the most advanced because of it: ever heard of the human flesh search engine? And satire is not impossible, because, at least phonetically, due to the different tones used, Chinese can be a good language for wordplay. So "Cao Ni Ma" using the pronunciation "Cǎo Ní Mǎ" is "Grass Mud Horse," but using the pronunciation "Cào nǐ mā" is "fark your mother."

I'm typing this from a small work factory dorm. I made 4360 iPhones today and feel suicidal.Taking away my internet privileges like trolling or making disparaging remarks about the government will not make me any happier.I hear we'll be making another version of the iPad soon. YipeeYay. I'm so privileged.

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But anyway, how about them Muslim rapists in India?! Religion of Peace, hahaha!

"I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away," she said during a panel discussion on social media hosted Tuesday evening by Marie Claire magazine. "People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. ... I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors."

Speaking on a panel at the event, Schmidt argued that anonymity on the Internet is dangerous. "In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you," he said.

Schmidt took the stance that governments may eventually put an end to anonymity. "We need a [verified] name service for people," he said. "Governments will demand it."

MadSkillz:What is it about Communist (at least in name) governments that they're so farking insecure about keeping their people in line? The simplification of their language by editing the characters down was like "newspeak" in 1984.

Simple. Their legitimacy, as a government, is that the people are happy, and things are improving.

The Chinese can do whatever the Chinese want so long as the crazy stays on their side of the line.What scares me is people like Feinstein and company take notes from them because these things sound like good ideas in their warped little minds.

/mark my words, registration is coming this way too./its gonna be part of some "save the children" act that sneaks through before a holiday.

MadSkillz:What is it about Communist (at least in name) governments that they're so farking insecure about keeping their people in line? The simplification of their language by editing the characters down was like "newspeak" in 1984.

Actually, to put it another way: These types of governments manage their people.

Just like how your typical corporation has rules saying that you can't badmouth the boss and keep your job (your livelihood).

Amazing! Korea just went the opposite way this year. You used to have to have a Korean ID number to access a number of web sites or make comments. They just eliminated that requirement about 6 months ago.

Mike_LowELL: Good. I'm sick of trolls who hide behind fictitious personalities and spew garbage. I can say this, since I am the head of a multi-billion dollar corporation and you are all poor and smelly liberals. Lol. Get stenched, nerds.

How many years did you serve? If you aren't a green beret seal 9/11 victim and holocaust survivor and ww2 vet who fought and died so that aholes like you have the right to spew that kind of garbage then you should just shut the hell up and let those of us who earned it speak. Semper Fictus!

doglover:Weaver95: i'm sort of expecting the GOP to try to push this sort of legislation here in the US.

They already is.

One of these days you're going to figure out that the people in power on the left, such as Obama, Pelosi, and the like are not the same as the rank and file liberal on the left.

And almost without exception, when the people in power on the left are left unchecked they will push through massive government control of everything because its "what's best" for "everyone" and by "everyone" they mean them and by "what's best" they mean control of the money.